Combined coat-collar and hood



(NoModeL) 0. FLAIG.

COMBINED GOAT'GO LLAR AND HOOD.

No. 314,660. Patented Mar; 31, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

OSKAR FLAIG, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

COMBINED COAT-COLLAR AND HOOD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,660, dated March 31, 1885.

' Application filed March 6, 1884. (No niodeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSKAR FLAIG, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, having declared my intention of becoming a citizen of the United States, residingin Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Coat-Collars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in coat-collars; and it consists in providing the collar with a concealed pocket vherein is contained a hood capable of being drawn out so as to cover and protect the-head of the wearer in inclement weather.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken through the collar and hood, when the collar is supposed to be turned down in its ordinary position. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the collar when raised to encircle the neck of the wearer, the dotted lines indicating the pocket in which the hood is contained. Fig. 3 is aview showing the hood drawn over the head of the wearer and the coat-c01lar encircling his neck and chin.

A is the back of the coat, B the outer flap of the collar, while 0 is the inner flap. These flaps are sewed together at the bottom, as indicated by the stitches F in Fig. 1; but the tops are only sewed for the space of an inch or two at each end, so as to hold them securely together. The space between these flaps constitutes the pocket 1?. In this pocket one end of the hood His so attached to one end of the flap that it can be drawn out or neatly folded therein, as desired.

The letter f in the drawings indicates the stitching, whereby the lower end of the hood is secured in the pocket. not in use,the pocket may be closed by means of small straps 8, attached to one of the flaps and engaging with buttons I), fastened to the other flap; or one of the flaps may be provided with buttons and the other with a buttonhole. Both means are shown in Fig. 2.

D is the strap, designed to engage with the button d, so that the collar can be secured on the wearer. When the collar is folded down in its ordinary position, vnone oi the straps or buttons are visible, but the collar appears as an ordinary one. I thus provide a cheap, simple, and efficient means for protecting people in cold or disagreeable weather, and which when not in use has the appearance of an ordinary collar.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein'described coatcollar, consisting of inner and outer flaps, B and O, and hood H, secured at one edge between said flaps and adapted to be folded into or withdrawn from the space between the flaps at will.

OSKAR FLAIG.

Witnesses:

W. ELwooD WYNNE, MAT BRADY.

When the hood is' 

